Osteopathic table.



PATENTED APR. 2, 1907.

H. T. ROOT. OSTEOPATHIG TABLE. APPLIOATION FILED NOV. 17. 1906.

A TTOR/VE Y5 UNITED, IsTArns I HENRY T. ROOT, OF KIRKSVILLE, MISSOURI.

PATENT orrron.

OSTEOPATHIC TABLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 2, 1907.

Application filed November 17, 1906. Serial No. 848,918.

specification.

This invention relates to apparatus for use by Osteopaths in treatingpatients, and has i for its principal object to provide a treatingtableon whlch the patient may be placed and to employ in connection with thetable a swinging support on which portions of the body may rest andwhich may be moved relatively to the table .for the purpose of treatingcertain arts of the body, especiallyin the dorsal an lumbar regions.

-A further object of the invention is to provide an osteopathic tablewith a swinging support which. may be adjusted vertically wit respect tothe table or at any desired angle thereto and which may be readilydetached when not in use.

A still further object of the invention is to provide a table of thischaracter which may e taken apart and packed in small compass for shiment or storage.

Witl i these and other objects ,in view, as will more fully hereinafterappear, the invention consists in certain novel features of constructionand arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in theaccompanying drawings, and particularly pointed out in the appendedclaims, it being understood that various changes in the form,proportions, size, and minor details of the structure may be madewithout departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advanta es 0the invention.

In t e accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of anosteopathic table constructed in accordance with the invention. Fig. 2is an end view of the table,

showin the bracket and the swinging support. ig. 3 is a detail viewshowing t e pivotal connection between the bracket and swinging arm. 7

Similar numerals of reference are employed to indicate correspondingparts throughout the several figures of the drawings.

The main frame of the table includes side rails 10 and end rails 11,which are connected to corner members 12, which may be formed ofcastings, and to the castings are secured legs 15, the lower portions ofwhich are strengthened and braced by a tube 16, hav

ing branched end ortions 17, which are secured to the severa legs-bymeans of thumbscrews 18, so that when necessary the table may be takenapart. On top of the table is placed a mattress or cushion 19, which maye formed of any suitable material.

Secured to one of the end rails 11 is a bracket 20, which may be formedof castiron or other suitable material, said bracket being rigidlylocked in position by'a air of bracing-rods 21, which extend from t eoposite sides of the bracket to the side rails 10..

his bracket carries two bearings 20 and 20 vertically disposed for thesupport of upper and lower qpintles 22, carried by a swinging arm 23. helower bearing 20 is o en, so that the swinging arm may be readilyremoved from the bracket when it becomes necessary to detach said arm.

The arm may be formed of cast metal, and at its outer end is arranged atwo-part clamp 24, the links of which may be forced together by means ofa handled screw 25. This clamp is arranged to engage avertically-adjustable bar 26', having a slot 27 for the passage of thescrew, the construction being such that the bar may be raised or loweredor may be turned at an angle to the vertical, as desired. To the upperend of the bar 26 is secured a su porting-pad 28, on which a portion ofthe body of the patient may rest.

*In using the device the patient is placed partly on the main table andartly on the support 28, and the latter may t hen be swung on itspivotal center for the purpose of treatin the affected part.

he device is of especial value in the treatment of heavy patients, andmore especially where the treatment is in the dorsal or lumbar re 'ons,the device permitting the su port 0 the main weight of the body on ti ltable, while the lower limbs are carried by the swinging support.

I claim 1. An osteopathic table having a bracket attached thereto,brace-rods extending from the bottom of the bracket inwardly to thesides of the table, a closed bearing and an open bearing projectingoutwardl from the top and bottom respectively of said bracket,

and a swinging arm rovlded with pintles adapted to engage sai bearings.

2. An osteopathic table having abracket attached thereto said brackethaving at its top an outwardly-projecting closed caring and at itsbottom an outwardly-projecting open bearing, and a removable swingingarm provided at one end with an adjustable rest or support and at itsother end with projecting lugs adapted to extend between the bearings ofsaid bracket and rest against them, said lugs havingoppositely-projecting pintles adapted to engage said bearings.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto afiixedmy signature in the presence of two witnesses.

HENRY T. ROOT. Witnesses: U. G. TEFFT,

E. C. LINK.

